Author: O'Hara, J.F.
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WEP225 H-Mode Accelerating Structures with PMQ Focusing for Low-Beta Beams 1909
 
  • S.S. Kurennoy, J.F. O'Hara, E.R. Olivas, L. Rybarcyk
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
 
  We report results of the project developing high-efficiency normal-conducting RF accelerating structures based on inter-digital H-mode (IH) cavities and the transverse beam focusing with permanent-magnet quadrupoles (PMQ), for beam velocities in the range of a few percent of the speed of light. The shunt impedance of IH-PMQ structures is 10-20 times higher than that of a conventional drift-tube linac, while the transverse size is 4-5 times smaller. The H-PMQ accelerating structures following a short RFQ can be used both in the front end of ion linacs or in stand-alone applications. Results of the combined 3-D modeling – electromagnetic computations, beam-dynamics simulations with high currents, and thermal-stress analysis – for a full IH-PMQ accelerator tank are presented. The accelerating field profile in the tank is tuned to provide the best propagation of a 50-mA deuteron beam using coupled iterations of electromagnetic and beam-dynamics modeling. Multi-particle simulations with Parmela and CST Particle Studio have been used to confirm the design. Measurement results of a cold model of the IH-PMQ tank are in a good agreement with the calculations and will also be presented.